On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:56:53PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Here is my ugly patch to fix userland ABI compatibility for WE-21.
> It tries to detect WE <= 20 by the request length or the inclusion of
> '\0' in the length for the ESSID and NICKN ioctls. If it finds that,
> it temporarily adjusts the length value and puts it back before
> reporting back to userland.
>
> It is possible that there are more elegant solutions that work, but
> I'm not totally convinced that they truly preserve the ABI as desired.
> Please see the discussion earlier in this thread if you are interested.
I agree that this is a good compromise.
Thanks a lot for your work, John !
Jean
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